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Quantum Beverage $QUBT is a $3B company that trades more daily dollar volume than Intel $INTC but with less revenue in forward projections than a single Chick-Fil-A location.
— Consensus Media (@ConsensusGurus)
6:14 PM • Jun 11, 2025
437 ±1% days and counting.
The 2020s are on track to be the most volatile decade in market history.
But here’s the twist... The S&P 500 is up over 80% since 2020.
Big moves. Big gains.
Not the combo we’re used to.
👉stockmarkettv.com/daily-number/2…
— Grant Hawkridge (@granthawkridge)
12:43 PM • Jun 13, 2025
The top 1% own 51% of stocks
The bottom 50% own 1%
— Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT 🍖 (@MikeZaccardi)
12:13 PM • Jun 14, 2025
Median Net Worth for married couples with children, ages 26-41 (Millennials in 2022, Gen X in roughly 2007, Boomers in roughly 1989)
Yes, it's adjusted for inflation
— Jeremy Horpedahl 🥚📉 (@jmhorp)
12:39 AM • Jun 11, 2025
Restaurant & bar retail sales down by -0.9% in May ... worst since February 2023
— Kevin Gordon (@KevRGordon)
12:37 PM • Jun 17, 2025
Where sell-side and other professional Fed watchers have the next cut:
There's a cluster with a start to cuts in Sept, a cluster with cuts resuming in Q4, and a cluster with no Fed cuts this year.
— Nick Timiraos (@NickTimiraos)
10:00 AM • Jun 11, 2025
It's surreal just how big Polymarket has gotten
— Shayne Coplan 🦅 (@shayne_coplan)
3:12 PM • Jun 13, 2025
bitcoin is currently $105,300
if you want to buy on coinbase, they charge $106,900. if you want to sell, it’s $103,950.
WTF?!?
— lynk (@lynk0x)
10:12 AM • Jun 14, 2025
At this rate the company is going to be worth more than the assets under admin - haha - I mean come on people $CRCL
— Thomas Braziel (@ThomasBraziel)
10:27 AM • Jun 16, 2025
Ingvar Kamprad was the founder of IKEA
He was worth close to $60 billion at the time of his death
I really love some of his frugal habits
- He drove a 1993 Volvo for two decades
- Purchased clothes from flea markets
- Got his haircut in foreign countries
- He flew coach— Dividend Growth Investor (@DividendGrowth)
7:48 PM • Jun 10, 2025
Lewis Pullman is set to star in ‘SPACEBALLS 2’ next to his father Bill Pullman
— ScreenTime (@screentime)
11:00 PM • Jun 12, 2025
#MastersOfTheUniverse has wrapped production.
via Nicholas Galitzine
— Rotten Tomatoes (@RottenTomatoes)
4:30 PM • Jun 16, 2025
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